THANKSGIVING

I am thankful for SS this morning. I missed some of you and hope you had a fabulous holiday. Our theme this morning was - surprise! Thanksgiving.

I Chronicles 16:8-12
Psalm 100:4-5
Psalm 136

The common theme of these verses is the reasons we give thanks to God. One of my reasons was repeated over and over in Psalm 136 - His love endures forever. Anyone who has ever loved anyone has lived with the fear that their love would come to an end. We fear that our parents will not love us if we do something bad enough, we fear that our boyfriend/girlfriend will decide they don't love us anymore, we fear that our children will not love us.

With God we do not have these fears. God was, is, and will always be. His love endures forever. How thankful I am that God isn't going away nor will He ever take His love away from me.

In class we wrote things we are thankful to God for. We then talked about ways we can show our thankfulness to God. Some of the responses were: showing unconditional love to others, patience with others, faithfulness to God, knowledge of God's desire for us, communication with God. We discussed that with continual, open communication with God all other means of expressing our thankfulness fall into place.

My challenge to you now is to write out the personal ways you desire to show God your thankfulness. Be prepared! When you communicate your desire to God, He will go to work to help you make it happen. If your desire is to forgive a person a past wrong and you truly desire this as a gift of thanks to God, God will work in you to help you forgive.

Write out the ways you want to express your thanks to God and then watch as God blesses you in your thankfulness.

Have a blessed week! RC